Alert archive / Wyoming / High Wind Warnings in 2008
High Wind Warning 13, NWS Riverton, WY
NWS Riverton, WY issued this high wind warning at Mar 27, 2008, 2:00 AM MDT for Fremont County, Wyoming. It took effect at Mar 27, 2008, 11:00 AM MDT. It was in force for 3 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 27, 2008, 2:00 AM MDT (08:00 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 27, 2008, 11:00 AM MDT
- Expired
- Mar 27, 2008, 1:55 PM MDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Riverton, WY
County Fremont County, WY
The radar
The Riverton/Lander radar (KRIW), 13 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Riverton, WY (KRIW), launched 00:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 19 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2401 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 102 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 163 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WWUS75 KRIW 270800 NPWRIW URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RIVERTON WY 200 AM MDT THU MAR 27 2008 ...HIGH WIND IS EXPECTED ACROSS THE WIND RIVER BASIN TODAY... .A STRONG COLD FRONT MOVING THROUGH WESTERN WYOMING THIS MORNING WILL MOVE EAST OF THE CONTINENTAL DIVIDE DURING THE LATE MORNING. AT THE SAME TIME...COLDER AIR ALOFT WILL MOVE OVER THE AREA DESTABILIZING THE ATMOSPHERE. THIS COMBINATION IS EXPECTED TO PRODUCE HIGH WIND IN THE WIND RIVER BASIN INCLUDING DUBOIS AND CROWHEART SOUTHEASTWARD TO RIVERTON. WYZ016-017-272030- /O.NEW.KRIW.HW.W.0013.080327T1700Z-080327T2300Z/ UPPER WIND RIVER BASIN-WIND RIVER BASIN- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...DUBOIS...RIVERTON...SHOSHONI 200 AM MDT THU MAR 27 2008 ...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 5 PM MDT THIS AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RIVERTON HAS ISSUED A HIGH WIND WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 5 PM MDT THIS AFTERNOON. SUSTAINED WEST TO NORTHWEST WIND FROM 35 TO 45 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 55 MPH ARE EXPECTED TO BEGIN LATE THIS MORNING AND CONTINUE THROUGH THE AFTERNOON. AREAS SUSCEPTIBLE TO THE HIGH WIND INCLUDE U.S. HIGHWAY 26 BETWEEN RIVERTON AND DUBOIS AND U.S. HIGHWAY 287 FROM NEAR FORT WASHAKIE NORTH TO THE HIGHWAY 26 JUNCTION. REMEMBER...A HIGH WIND WARNING MEANS HAZARDOUS WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE IMMINENT OR HIGHLY LIKELY. $$
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS75 KRIW 271718 NPWRIW URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RIVERTON WY 1118 AM MDT THU MAR 27 2008 ...HIGH WIND IS EXPECTED ACROSS THE WIND RIVER BASIN TODAY... .A STRONG COLD FRONT WILL SWEEP ACROSS THE AREA TODAY AND COMBINE WITH STRONG WINDS ABOVE THE SURFACE TO PRODUCE HIGH WINDS BETWEEN DUBOIS...CROWHEART AND RIVERTON THIS AFTERNOON. WYZ016-017-272300- /O.CON.KRIW.HW.W.0013.000000T0000Z-080327T2300Z/ UPPER WIND RIVER BASIN-WIND RIVER BASIN- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...DUBOIS...RIVERTON...SHOSHONI 1118 AM MDT THU MAR 27 2008 ...HIGH WIND WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM MDT THIS AFTERNOON... A HIGH WIND WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM MDT THIS AFTERNOON. SUSTAINED WEST TO NORTHWEST WIND FROM 35 TO 45 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 55 MPH ARE EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON. AREAS SUSCEPTIBLE TO THE HIGH WIND INCLUDE U.S. HIGHWAY 26 BETWEEN RIVERTON AND DUBOIS AND U.S. HIGHWAY 287 FROM NEAR FORT WASHAKIE NORTH TO THE HIGHWAY 26 JUNCTION. AS 11 AM...WEST WINDS WERE ALREADY BLOWING 25 TO 35 MPH ACROSS THE AREA WITH GUSTS NEARING 50 MPH. REMEMBER...A HIGH WIND WARNING MEANS HAZARDOUS WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE IMMINENT OR HIGHLY LIKELY. $$ TEAM RIVERTON
000 WWUS75 KRIW 271955 NPWRIW URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RIVERTON WY 155 PM MDT THU MAR 27 2008 WYZ016-017-272100- /O.CAN.KRIW.HW.W.0013.000000T0000Z-080327T2300Z/ UPPER WIND RIVER BASIN-WIND RIVER BASIN- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...DUBOIS...RIVERTON...SHOSHONI 155 PM MDT THU MAR 27 2008 ...HIGH WIND WARNING IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RIVERTON HAS CANCELLED THE HIGH WIND WARNING. STRONG WEST WINDS ARE STILL EXPECTED THE REMAINDER OF THE AFTERNOON BUT WIDESPREAD HIGH WINDS ARE NO LONGER EXPECTED. WEST WINDS OF 30 TO 35 MPH WILL CONTINUE WITH PEAK GUSTS OF 45 TO 55 MPH BEFORE DIMINISHING AFTER 6 PM. $$ TEAM RIVERTON
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.